Anders Sommar Bruzelius (14 November 1911 – 11 October 2006) was a Swedish jurist, judge and an early collaborator of

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President ...

. He earned his jur.kand. (JD) at

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in 1934, and was a judge on

Lund District Court The district courts of Sweden ( sv, tingsrätt) are the court of first instance for the general courts in Sweden. The next instance are the courts of appeal (). The district court handle criminal cases, some civil law disputes and a number of ...

from 1953. He lectured at the law faculty of

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President ...

, who spent some months in Sweden to co-author the book ''Civil Procedure in Sweden'' with him. Bruzelius and Ginsburg were both appointed as honorary doctors at the Lund law faculty in 1969. Anders Bruzelius was the father of Norwegian supreme court justice and president of the

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Karin M. Bruzelius Karin Maria Bruzelius (born 19 February 1941) is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a gove ...

. Ginsburg became a close friend of the Bruzelius family; Karin M. Bruzelius noted that "by getting close to my family, Ruth realized that one could live in a completely different way, that women could have a different lifestyle and legal position than what they had in the United States."

Bibliography

*Anders Bruzelius: ''Rättskunskap'', Gleerup, Lund 1959 *Anders Bruzelius och Ruth Ginsburg: ''Civil Procedure in Sweden'', Martinus Nijhoff, Haag 1965 *Anders Bruzelius, Erik Wångstedt och Marie-Louise Norking: ''Kortfattad engelsk-svensk juridisk ordbok'' *Anders Bruzelius: ''Doctorinnan Erica Sommar född Liebman'', Bruzelianska släktföreningen, Södra Sandby 1981 *Anders Bruzelius and Jan Nasanius: ''Socialtjänstens termer och begrepp: social ordbok'', Skeab/Håkan Ohlson, Lund 1982

References

Swedish jurists Lund University faculty 1911 births 2006 deaths {{Sweden-law-bio-stub